Meta-Values: Universal Principles for a Sane World - Hardcover

Truan, C. Franklin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587363143 ISBN 13: 9781587363146

Publisher: Fenestra Books,US, 2004

Synopsis

Meta-Values is a philosophical introduction to the psychology of constructive beliefs and values. It explores the origin, structure and content of man's beliefs and resulting values and examines them for their effect on mental health and the experience of psychological quality. The book also introduces three fundamental "meta-values" as the basis of all beneficial human values.

About this title

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
C. FRANKLIN TRUAN, PH.D.
Dr. C. Franklin Truan is a psychologist who has been in the field of mental
health for thirty years. He has been in private clinical practice for twenty
years, taught as an adjunct professor at the university level, authored articles in
clinical psychology and interpersonal relations, and has consulted with numerous
public and private sector organizations throughout the United States. Currently
he is a practicing clinician and university professor in St. Simons/
Brunswick, Georgia.
Dr. Truan maintains that, in the end, the best solution to mental illness is
preventive education and social change. On an individual level, healthful psychological
development and the experience of quality, as life unfolds, requires a
nurturing early life environment and a life long commitment to acquiring new
knowledge and understanding.
In Meta-Values: Universal Principles for a Sane World, Dr. Truan uses commonsense
language to transform complicated concepts from the fields of philosophy
and psychology into useful knowledge about the relationship between
lived beneficial values and mental health and the experience of psychological
quality. He believes that philosophy and psychology as human sciences are the
provinces of everyone and that practical knowledge from these disciplines is
critical in improving the mental health and fulfillment of individuals and society.
Dr. Truan maintains that the concepts presented in this volume are universal
in nature and fundamental to forming an ethical value structure that will
foster mental health and beneficial relationships among all peoples of the
world.
To contact Dr. Truan,

Edition details

• Publisher: Fenestra Books,US
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587363143
• ISBN 13: 9781587363146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184